Jeremiah 9 (NET)

Jeremiah 9:1¹(8:23) I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 22:4Jer 13:17Jer 8:21-22Lam 2:11Jer 6:26Ezek 21:6-7Isa 16:9Jer 14:17Lam 2:18-19Lam 3:48-49

Jeremiah 9:2²(9:1) I wish I had a lodging place in the wilderness where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:10Jer 5:7-8Hos 4:2Hos 7:4Jer 12:1Jer 12:6Ezek 22:10-11Hos 5:7Hos 6:7Jas 4:4

Jeremiah 9:3³The Lord says, “These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:22Jer 9:8Isa 59:13-15Judg 2:101 Sam 2:12Rom 3:132 Cor 4:4-62 Tim 3:13Hos 4:1-3Isa 59:3-5

Jeremiah 9:4⁴Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all his friends will tell lies about him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 7:5-6Prov 26:24-25Ps 12:2-3Jer 6:28Lev 19:16Prov 10:18Prov 25:18Matt 10:21Prov 6:16Ps 15:3

Jeremiah 9:5⁵One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:13Isa 57:10Isa 59:13-15Job 15:5Mic 6:121 Tim 4:2Eph 4:25Ezek 24:12Isa 41:6-7Isa 44:12-14

Jeremiah 9:6⁶They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 4:6Jer 13:10Jer 11:19Jer 20:10Jer 5:27Jer 8:5Job 21:14-15John 3:19-20Prov 1:24Prov 1:29

Jeremiah 9:7⁷Therefore the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “I will now purify them in the fires of affliction and test them. The wickedness of my dear people has left me no choice. What else can I do?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:25Isa 48:10Jer 6:27Mal 3:3Zech 13:91 Pet 1:71 Pet 4:12Hos 11:8-9Ezek 22:18-22Jer 6:29-30

Jeremiah 9:8⁸Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths, but their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 28:3Prov 26:24-26Ps 120:32 Sam 20:9-102 Sam 3:27Jer 9:3Ps 12:2Ps 55:21Ps 57:4Ps 64:3-4

Jeremiah 9:9⁹I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 5:29Jer 5:9Isa 1:24

Jeremiah 9:10¹⁰I said, “I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains; I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 12:4Hos 4:3Ezek 14:15Ezek 29:11Ezek 33:28Jer 12:10Jer 7:29Isa 49:19Jer 13:16-17Jer 14:6

Jeremiah 9:11¹¹The Lord said, “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 25:2Isa 13:22Isa 34:13Jer 10:22Jer 51:37Jer 25:11Jer 26:18Jer 34:22Lam 2:2Lam 2:7-8

Jeremiah 9:12¹²I said, “Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? Who has a word from the Lord that can explain it? Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 14:9Ps 107:43Deut 32:29Ps 107:341 Kgs 9:8-9Deut 29:22-28Ezek 14:23Ezek 22:25-31Jer 16:10-13Jer 22:8-9

Jeremiah 9:13¹³The Lord answered, “This has happened because these people have rejected my laws that I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 7:19Jer 22:9Ezra 9:10Deut 31:16-17Prov 28:4Ps 119:53Ps 89:30-32Zeph 3:1-6

Jeremiah 9:14¹⁴Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 3:17Jer 7:241 Pet 1:18Eph 2:3Gal 1:14Rom 1:21-24Eph 4:17-19Gen 6:5Jer 2:8Jer 2:23

Jeremiah 9:15¹⁵So then, listen to what I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say, ‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 8:14Lam 3:15Ps 80:5Jer 23:15Deut 29:18Isa 2:17Isa 2:22Jer 25:15Lam 3:19Ps 60:3

Jeremiah 9:16¹⁶I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:64Ezek 5:12Ezek 5:2Lev 26:33Jer 44:27Jer 13:24Deut 28:25Deut 28:36Deut 32:26Deut 4:27

Jeremiah 9:17¹⁷The Lord of Heaven’s Armies told me to say to this people: “Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:16-17Eccl 12:52 Chr 35:25Job 3:8Mark 5:38Matt 9:23

Jeremiah 9:18¹⁸I said, “Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:1Isa 22:4Jer 14:17Jer 9:20Jer 13:17Jer 6:26Jer 9:10Lam 1:2Lam 2:11Lam 2:18

Jeremiah 9:19¹⁹For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion, ‘We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For we have left our land, for our houses have been torn down!’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:13Deut 28:29Ezek 7:16-18Jer 2:14Jer 4:20Jer 4:30-31Lam 4:15Lam 5:2Lev 18:25Lev 18:28

Jeremiah 9:20²⁰I said, “So now, you wailing women, listen to the Lord’ s message. Open your ears to the message from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and let every woman teach her neighbor this lament.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:27-30Isa 32:9-13Job 22:22Isa 3:16Jer 9:17-18Isa 3:4

Jeremiah 9:21²¹‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 6:112 Chr 36:17Ezek 9:5-6Jer 15:7Amos 6:10-11Ezek 21:14-15

Jeremiah 9:22²²Tell your daughters and neighbors, ‘The Lord says: “The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere like manure scattered on a field. They will lie scattered on the ground like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered.”’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 8:2Jer 25:33Isa 5:25Jer 16:4Ps 83:10Zeph 1:172 Kgs 9:37Jer 7:33

Jeremiah 9:23²³The Lord says, “Wise people should not boast that they are wise. Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. Rich people should not boast that they are rich.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:27-29Isa 5:21Eccl 9:11Rom 1:221 Cor 3:18-20Ps 49:6-13Ezek 7:191 Cor 1:19-21Jas 3:14-16Job 31:24-25

Jeremiah 9:24²⁴If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 10:17Gal 6:141 Cor 1:31Mic 6:8Mic 7:18Ps 44:81 John 5:20Ps 146:7-9John 17:3Ps 36:5-7

Jeremiah 9:25²⁵The Lord says, “Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:2-6Rom 2:25-26Rom 2:8-9Amos 3:2Ezek 28:10Ezek 32:19-32

Jeremiah 9:26²⁶That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord ’s sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:4Lev 26:41Ezek 44:7Isa 19:24-25Rom 2:28-29Acts 7:51Deut 30:6Ezek 24:1-27Isa 13:1-22Jer 25:9-26